This path leads towards the balkanization of the web, which is a step backward in my estimation. This tool reports that static sites with no JS, no cookies, and

This path leads towards the balkanization of the web, which is a step backward in my estimation. This tool reports that static sites with no JS, no cookies, and no third-party requests are in violation because they are hosted in a place other than the EU. That surprises me greatly. It seems from your comments downthread that this is the direction you see things going (i.e. a more fragmented internet), and that may be correct, but I see it as a huge loss, and I _highly_ doubt it will solve any of the privacy problems we have. Now that I think about it, if an IP address is PII, and leaking PII outside of the EU is a violation, I wonder if any P2P network can be legal in the EU, since P2P networks leak IPs globally. How would IPFS or Bittorrent work? A quick search shows that this is indeed an issue, and the most P2P networks don't support the necessary revocation of PII necessary. IEEE has an early access paper[0] about exactly this issue: > To comply with the criteria of the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation, it is important to ensure that personal data can be completely removed by their owners. To improve the privacy and security of the P2P file-sharing system, we propose a revocable and monitorable P2P file-sharing system over a consortium blockchain to achieve revocation of files in the decentralized environment. So, for everyone who said blockchain is a solution in search of a problem, I present GDPR-compliant P2P networks! I'm mostly kidding, my brief read through the abstract suggests this also requires a bunch of other heavy-handed measures, like securely verifying the P2P executable using Intel SGX. It's hard for me to imagine such a system gaining any sort of widespread use, but I've been wrong before. [0]: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9684748 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9684748